FILM INDUSTRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does film industry mean? 

• FILM INDUSTRY (noun)
  The noun FILM INDUSTRY has 1 sense:

1. the entertainment industries involved in producing and distributing movies

  Familiarity information: FILM INDUSTRY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FILM INDUSTRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The entertainment industries involved in producing and distributing movies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

film industry; movie industry

Hypernyms ("film industry" is a kind of...):

industry (the people or companies engaged in a particular kind of commercial enterprise)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "film industry"):

Bollywood (the film industry of India)

filmdom; screen; screenland (the personnel of the film industry)

Hollywood (the film industry of the United States)

Holonyms ("film industry" is a part of...):

entertainment industry; show biz; show business (those involved in providing entertainment: radio and television and films and theater)